Chaga Mushroom Extract

Chaga is one of nature’s oldest medicinal herbs. Some would say it has been touted worldwide as "The Medicinal King of Herbs", and a precious gift from nature. For centuries, Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners used Chaga for general health, longevity and beauty and as a remedy for many serio

Introduction:

Product Name: Chaga Mushroom extract

Effectiveness: Anti-cancer / Body Balance/ Antioxidant

Category: Standard Herbal Extract / Ratio Extract

Active Ingredients：Polysaccharides, Pteroiploglutamic, Syringic acid.

Specifications：Polysaccharides 10%,25%,30%,40%,50% HPLC ;10:1 by TLC

Apprearance: Dark brown fine powder

Solubility: Soluble in water, methanol and ethanol

Latin Name: Inonotus obliquus L.

Part used: Fruit Body

Effectiveness of use:

1) Anti-cancer

Research on Anti-cancer effect

Recent research has shown chaga mushrooms to be a powerful anti-oxidant, useful in fighting tumors, and an excellent stimulant for the immune system. Below, find a quick summary of the research on the cancer-fighting properties of chaga mushrooms.

1958---Researchers in Russia and Finland concluded that chaga is an effective way of fighting breast cancer, liver cancer, and uterine cancer.

1996---Researchers in Japan discovered that cells treated with chaga extract were less likely to mutate (a main cause of cancer).

1998---Researchers in Poland demonstrated that chaga inhibits the growth of tumors.

2005---Researchers in Korea showed that cells treated with chaga extract were 40% more resistant to DNA damage when exposed to an oxidant.

The litany of research on the chaga mushroom and its cancer fighting properties is very promising and shows that chaga mushrooms are beneficial both in preventing cancer as well as in fighting cancer.

Chaga mushrooms grow mainly in the birch forests of and Central Asia. Birch trees contain a chemical called betulin, a type of hydrocarbon common to some plants. Betulinic acid has been shown to be an effective as an anti-inflammatory, anti-malarial, and even anti-HIV chemical. Because the chaga mushroom grows on the birch trees, it holds a high concentration of betulinic acid. Betulinic acid is currently being studied for its potential in chemotherapy drugs.

Also, like other medicinal mushrooms, such as shiitake, cordyceps, and others, chaga mushrooms contain polysaccharides, molecules previously thought to have no real function, but which are today being heavily researched for their cancer fighting properties. Korean researchers at Seoul National University have showed the polysaccharides in chaga can block the production of certain .

2) Antioxidant

Chaga has the highest ORAC score ever recorded in any natural food! Our powdered Chaga extract has 1,104 ORAC units per gram. Compared with other foods rich in antioxidants, such as blueberries or pomegranate, Chaga is much higher in antioxidants, meaning that its capacity to wipe out free radicals is much stronger.

Optimally Organic's Raw Organic Siberian Chaga Mushroom (Inonotus Obliquus) is 100% natural and harvested in the wild. They contain over 215 phytonutrients, have 25 to 50 times more SOD antioxidants than Agarigus, Q10 , vitamin C and wild blueberries, and rated among the highest on the antioxidant scale of measurement.

Detail information:

Chaga (a Latinisation of the Russian term 'чага' and pronouned as chah-ga), ( Inonotus obliquus ), also known as cinder conk, is a fungus in Hymenochaetaceae family. It is a fungus parasitic on Birch and other trees. The sterile conk is irregularly formed and has the appearance of burnt charcoal. It is not the fruiting body of the fungus, as many believe, but in fact a big mass of mycelium, mostly black due to the presence of massive amounts of melanin. The fertile fruitbody can be found very rarely as a resupinate (crustose) fungus on or near the clinker, usually appearing after the host tree is completely dead. I. obliquus grows in birch forests of China, Russia, Korea, Eastern and Northern Europe, Northern areas of the United States, in the North Carolina mountains and in Canada. The Chaga mushroom is considered a medicinal mushroom that has a place in Russian and Eastern European folk medicine.

Customer support:

1. What kinds of Chaga products do you supply ?

Polysaccharides 10%,25%,30%,40%,50%

Chaga Mushroom extract 10:1

2. What kind of extract method do you use?

We combine two methods of hot water extraction and alcohol extraction. This will result in the most valuable components being present.

3. What’s the difference of Polysaccharides 10% and Chaga 10:1?

Polysaccharides 10% : An extract is made by standardizing the powder to contain a minimum amount of an active ingredient. For example, Polysaccharides 10% means that there is a minimum of 10% Polysaccharides in the finished product. Using a standardized extract gives you assurance that your formula contains the correct amount of active ingredient.

Chaga 10:1 : A ratio is made by concentrating a large amount of raw material to make a higher potency product. For example, Chaga 10:1 means that 10 parts of raw materials were used to make 1 part of finished product. This process results in a more concentrated and potent form of the raw ingredient.